# Avatar is getting 3 sequels? Wha?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830 "2014-06-02T13:22:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/41 "2014-08-26T21:54:30Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I liked Avatar, and have not seen it in 3D. However, story-wise, I see absolutely no reason whatsoever for a sequel or three. I think that might have something to do with $$$. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/42 "2014-08-26T22:03:18Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > As far as the story there were no memorable characters (I couldn’t name a single one from memory, though would recognize a few of them if I read them). I couldn’t even name the planet without a hint at this point. [Dicks.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=684667) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/43 "2014-08-26T22:10:31Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > If people wen to \*Avatar \*because of the 3D, then why did they go to _Titanic_? Because those people were female. Girlfriend, at the time, and her friends saw it three times in the theaters. I still have not seen Titanic. > [@](#): > > Because it seems to me that what moviegoers \*really \*want to see, is movies directed by James Cameron. I could never get her to watch Abyss or Aliens. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/44 "2014-08-26T22:42:13Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Because those people were female. Girlfriend, at the time, and her friends saw it three times in the theaters. I still have not seen Titanic. I was a teenager when Titanic came out and one of my male friends saw it 11 times in the theater. He could have been lying, but why would you make up something like that? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/45 "2014-08-26T22:44:12Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Am I the only person who liked JP3 the best? Maybe. I like all three but in a 1-3-2 order. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/46 "2014-08-27T04:53:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **MOIDALIZE** : > > Yeah, the Earthlings. They had a massive firepower advantage, which inexplicably failed to carry the day, especially given the fact that the Na’vi presented larger-than-human targets. The Earthlings had bullets. Eywa had mountains. Mountains are a heck of a lot more massive than bullets. OK, so Eywa didn’t need to shoot mountains at the Earthlings, but if it had come to that, she could have. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/47 "2014-08-27T08:05:00Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Here’s my idea: The first sequel begins a couple of years after the first movie. Sully and the Navi girl (don’t care to look up her name) are trying to start a family, which is important for her, but she isn’t getting pregnant. This is causing stress in their relationship. Looking for answers, Sully goes back to the human base. Besides himself, two humans were allowed to stay: the other avatar guy (whose avatar was killed during the final battle) and the Indian tech guy. When Sully arrives, he finds only the tech guy. It turns out that Other Avatar Guy killed himself because he couldn’t stand the lonliness and isolation. (Remember, humans can’t breathe the air on Pandora, so these guys would be stuck in/around the base for the rest of their lives.) Sully finds out from the tech guy that the avatars are sterile. The humans who planned the project weren’t idiots; they knew what sort of hijinks might occur, so they made sure that there wouldn’t be any unexpected avatar babies running around. > > This would provide some internal conflict, as Sully would have to deal with the fact that can never give his girl the family she wants. I’d have the main threat be aliens (non-humans, that is). We could save the Revenge of the Humans for a later sequel. That is an interesting idea, though personally I don’t like watching family/relationship conflicts like that in movies so I hope Cameron doesn’t go that route _(or at least make it the central focus of the movie)_ And count me as someone who enjoyed Avatar, thought it was decent but not great. I never understood the fascination for Pandora, sure its pretty and well realised but its really only a flourescent Earth jungle. That and the ‘bad humans - noble aliens’ theme irritated me as well. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/48 "2014-08-27T08:12:01Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > I was a teenager when Titanic came out and one of my male friends saw it 11 times in the theater. He could have been lying, but why would you make up something like that? I’m a guy, and I saw it twice in the theaters myself. The first half was a perfectly decent costume drama, and the second was a great action movie. What’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/49 "2014-08-27T09:54:16Z")
Movie production companies are ALWAYS overly optimistic about sequels, reality AKA money will determine whether it comes true or not. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/50 "2014-08-27T12:48:30Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > I mean… Honestly; given how assholish Earthlings are generally portrayed as being in the movie, there is only one end I can imagine for the whole story: X years after the events of “Avatar” Earth sends a big fleet to Pandora, nukes the whole wretched place and those uppity smurfs to smithereens and strip-mines what remains to its heart’s content. They can’t do that though - they need Unobtainium in order to get to the Unobtanium - it’s like when you need your glasses to find your glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/51 "2014-08-27T15:53:52Z")
I could probably be wooed back into the theatre to see a sequel set in the same Avatar universe since that was the most intersting part but they’d have to have a new story line and scrap all the current characters and actors. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/52 "2014-08-27T15:56:50Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Because those people were female. Girlfriend, at the time, and her friends saw it three times in the theaters. I still have not seen Titanic. > > . It\* is\* interesting that some of the most “romantic” films are when the female protagonist is cheating. But never when the man is cheating. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/53 "2014-08-27T16:02:01Z")
I wouldn’t say that Rose was cheating in _Titanic_. Her engagement to the rich dude was arranged-- She never had a say in it. Ditching him for another guy might piss off her parents, but she’s not backing out on any commitment she herself made. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830/54 "2014-08-27T18:47:44Z")
Disney is about to do a big expansion to their Animal Kingdom park called “Avatarland.” They need it to be a big franchise to justify it all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-is-getting-3-sequels-wha/689830.md?page=2)